From: Randall Parker 

In , the sagacious
alancairns{at}dccnet.com Alan Cairns perspicated:
> Why do we "have to rely on histories written by liberals"?

Well, in the US 90+% of the academics are Democrats. Out of 150 in the
Kennedy School of Gov't at Harvard 5 of them are Repubs and the rest Demos.
Liberal Democrats go into the academy way more than Repubs. History really
is written by such people whether you care to acknowledge the obvious or
not.

>Surely
> you're not claiming that every modern historian is a "liberal",
> whatever that may be? Or is a "liberal" just anyone to the left of
> Genghis Khan?

Alan, you are not even aware of just how left-wing you are. You still think
that Thatcher did grievous damage to Scotland. Whereas she really put a
stop to many of the policies that had been running the UK into the ground
for decades.

> Maybe all history is bunk in your eyes.

No, I just know that FDR and Truman have had their adminstrations glorified
by American liberals. Ditto for the Kennedys.

> Incidentally, EUrope was actually quite industrialized by the
> 'forties.

That is what I meant when I said "Because Europe already had the
institutions and culture that made industrialization possible in the first
place. "

Europe was able to _recover_ because there was an industrialized and urban
economy that had existed prior to the war. That's my whole point.

> Strangely enough, the industrial revolution began there, in
> Britain.

Geez, I never knew that before.

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